The
first of this year’s lively Poetry Café events offers poetry sure to
spice up the lunch included in the ticket price. Chris Young, familiar
to many for his regular slam appearances at the Byre, was a worthy
winner of the StAnza 2011 slam. He is joined in the Studio Theatre by
one of his regular sparring partners from ‘Arguments and Nosebleeds’, an
occasional collective founded by Jane Overton to bring the punch of
performance poetry to mainstream audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe and
beyond.

Edinburgh Fringe 2012

Round off your Fringetide with an afternoon of poetry transfused with comedy. A craic squad of performance poets tackles life’s major issues (scary schoolteachers, body hair, missing teapots etc.), pausing only for laughter and medical emergencies.

Battered and bruised from the success of previous years, the tag-team returns for another bout of verbal footwork – punching both sides of the belt. They expect to haemorrhage humour of all kinds, from the sanguine and the phlegmatic to occasional melancholy and bile.